Bottle.



(No Model.)

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BUTTLE.

{Applicaton filed Aug. 9. 1900.)

Unire STATES ATENT FFICE.

CARL F. KIHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,149, dated November 20, 1900.

Application filed August 9, 1900. Serial No. 26,376. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, CARL F. KIHN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn,in the city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of the invention is to avoid the possibility of reiilling, the importance of which is widely recognized. My invention attains this by a construction which is durable and reliable and without any metallic parts. It may be all of glass except an inclosed cork and an ordinary tight-stopping cork. Metal is objectionable from its influence on many important kinds of liquids. I make the bottle in three parts, joining them permanentlyand neatly by screw-threads and white-lead or analogous cement which will exert no objectionable influence. Within the neck thus compoundly formed I inclose a loosely-fitted cork and a weight, the cork being preferably cylindrical and the weight spherical. The weight is over the cork when the bottle stands upright and is sufficient to force the cork down in opposition to its buoyancy. A tight annular seat is provided below, against which the cork may make a sufiiciently tight joint to insure against refilling Within any practicable time. Vhen the bottle is inverted, the weight is of no effect, and then the buoyancy of the cork asserts itself and holds the cork against the seat. The liquid can be poured out from the bottle at any time by the ordinary mod'es of tilting and reversing, the pressure of the liquid in the interior of the bottle forcing away the cork. The construction provides a great number of small crooked passages, the aggregate area of which is sufficient to allow a free flow of the liquid in escaping. I provide special means for venting the passages. The venting is ample and yet so arranged that no wire or other device can be introduced to defeat the action. The device attains ease of filling by the proper parties at rst, a liberal iiow tilling the whole terminal orifice, and gives all the immunity against fraud which is afforded by the most secure of the previously-known devices. My venting-apertures in connection with a longitudinal chamber provided by an encircling ridge in the interior insure a free communication with the interior of the bottle for the admission of air through each or all of the passages.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and represent what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure l is a central vertical section on the line w tu in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in horizontal section on the line :I: @c in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line y y in Fig l. The remaining figures show certain portions removed. Fig. e is a section on the line z z in Fig. 3 seen from the left, and Fig. 5 is a top View.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

The three parts of the bottle may be all made of glass of the same ordiiferent colors, according as the taste or a desire to readily distinguish the bottles may dictate. Certain portions of each will be indicated when necessary by su pernumerals.

A is the body of the bottle, A an offset or shoulder, and A2 a short neck screw-threaded on its exterior and shaped at its top to form an annular seat to receive the cork.

B is the innermost of the two permanent attachments. Its upper end is closed. Its main length is liberally perforated and provided on its exterior with longitudinal ribs B', which insure its being held concentrically within the exterior part. The exterior of the lower end of, this part B is equipped with a projection B2, the purpose of which will presently appear. Theinterior of the lower-end is screw-threaded to match the screw-threads on A.

C is the exterior' piece. Its interior is open throughout. Its upper end may receive a cork with any more or less elaborate fastenings which may be required or expedient to serve all the uses of an ordinary bottle-mouth. The slightly-tapered interior matches upon the correspondingly-tapered ribs B'. A recess c at the lower edge matches on the projection B2 and insures that the parts B and C are properly related.

In applying the parts together the ball D of glass is introduced into the top of the interior of B and aloosely-fitted corkEis applied below it. The length of this cork E added to IOO the diameter of the ball I) so nearly `fills the length of the hollow interior of B that when the parts are in place there is only sufficient play lengthwise to allow the cork E to move from the seat A2 enough to provide a free escape of the liquid in pouring out. The pouring out is performed in the ordinary manner.

Any attempt to introduce the same or any other liquid into the bottle is frustrated by the cork which moves to its seat by the gravity of itself and the added ball when the bottle is upright and moves to its seat by its property of lotation when the bottle is inverted.

A series of holes c c2 c3 c4 are produced in the outer neck C above the cork, which provide for the free ingress and egress of air to insure the venting of the passages. The interior of C is formed with a guard-ridge C', which extends around these apertures and makes a free passage, joining the several small apertures together in the interior. A liberal longitudinal orifice b is provided in the vessel B,wl1ich coincides with these ventapertures b, and a series of other large apertures b allow a sufficiently free motion of the fluid radially outward when the bottle is being emptied. After the liquid has moved outward through these apertures b and b it can move longitudinally through the thin and.

nearly continuous annular space between B and C and uniting beyond the end of B flow out through the mouth of U in the same manner as liquid Hows from an ordinary bottle. Besides these there are small apertures b2 produced in the surface along the entire midlength of the part B.

When through a fraudulent desire an attempt is made to use the bottle and its label to receive other and inferior liquids to be sold as the genuine and an attempt is made to refill the bottleJ myconstruction eectuallydefeats the eiort. If the bottle is in the upright position, the cork E is held down by the weight D upon the rim A2. In this condition there may be leakage past the cork serving as a lightly-seated valve; but the flow of liquid into the bottle through such leakage would be too slow to be ever practiced as a means of promoting fraud. If the bottle is inverted,

the cork floats and closes the joint in a similar manner, with the further diculty that the air in the bottle would forbid the liquid the entrance of liquid through the small apertures b2 would further hasten and more strongly press the cork to its seat.

The cemented junctions are inseparable after the cement has fully hardened, so that the parts A, B, and C cannot be separated, but will serve indefinitely afterward as an integral structure. Y

When the body A of the bottle is square, as shown, I prefer that the pouring shall be done with one of the anglesuppermost. With a square form or any other form of bottle in which there is a certain edge or face to lie uppermost in the pouring I locate the apertures c' c?, dac., on the side which is to be thus presented uppermost.

Modifications may be made without departing from the principle or sacricing the advantages of the invention. The taper of the interior of the outer shell C and of the matching surfaces of the longitudinal ribs B may be varied Within Wide limits or may be omitted altogether.

I use the term bottle to mean any analogous vessel-as vial,jug,demijohn, or the like.

I use the term cork to indicate the device E of whatever material. It is essential that it shall be light, so as to float, and not subject to corrosion by the liquid, and so formed that it can move to and from the seat and serve as a oating valve.

I claim as my invention- A bottle having a valve-seat on the body adjacent to the neck and a neck in two separately-produced pieces which may be all of glass, arranged one within the other the innermost perforated laterally, on many sides, and the outermost perforated at the points o', c2, and equipped with a guard-ridge C forming a longitudinal passage connecting such perforations, in combination with a iioatable valve and a loosely-connected Weight, all arranged for joint operation substantially as herein specified.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARL F. KIHN.

Witnesses:

J. B. CLAU'rIoE, M. F. BoYLn.

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